SoundCheck 3.0.1003 PassMark SoundCheck allows users to test their PC sound card, speakers and microphone. Verify that your sound card can record and playback sounds at various audio sample rates. Check the capability of your speakers to reproduce the highest and lowest frequencies (and your capability to hear these frequencies). Create perfectly formed test tones and loop them back into your sound card to look for distortion.

DiskCheckup 3.0.1005 DiskCheckup measures the performance and 'health' of your S.M.A.R.T. enabled hard disk drive. It compares current hard disk attributes to values determined by the manufacturer of the HDD. It can track changes to the attributes over time and make a extrapolated 'prediction' as to the failure date of the HDD. It can be command line driven and can be configured to send alerts by email. Free for personal use, $US 15.00 for commercial use.

DiskCheckup review Good program, easy to use, great way to check the health of your disks.

PerformanceTest 8.0.1008 PerformanceTest enables anyone to objectively benchmark their computer by putting it through twenty-eight tests in six test suites, designed to cover all aspects of computing performance. Compare your PC's performance with built-in baselines, or download comparison data from a huge database of baselines from PassMark. Export results to a variety of formats. Customize tests to conduct in-depth performance analysis.

Great product love the interface

Nag screen turned me off. I assemble computers on a regular basis and I am looking for a benchmarking utility to compare system performance when switching microprocessors, video cards, adding more memory, and similar tasks. This program gives fair results, however I will not be using it. The reason is that changing system components like that sometimes requires to clear the CMOS for the system to boot properly, and such action resets the computer clock. In the evaluation version I tested, every time I cleared the CMOS, the benchmarking utility refused to start, claiming I had turned back the clock to defeat the program's copy ...